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  • 2 - Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching

  • Sarah Roddy, Maynooth University
  • Book:
    Money and Irish Catholicism
    Published online:
    20 February 2025
    Print publication:
    27 February 2025, pp 55-94

  • Summary

    This chapter explores sacramental fees in respect of baptisms, weddings, funerals, and other life cycle events. One of the most significant aspects of clerical income, these fees were equally a substantial, but vital, financial outlay for the laity, which had meanings that were social, cultural, religious, and personal. This chapter argues that those on either side of the transaction could often value the money involved very differently, a finding that has an important bearing on our understanding of where the balance of power lay between Church and people. This chapter will also emphasise, through its varied examples, that sacramental fees were highly regionalised and could operate very differently depending on the parish or diocese involved.